TripAdvisor Reviews Las Orquideas Santa Elena

Travel Blogs from Santa Elena

... we went there first, and then found new trails and a beautiful suspension bridge that we hadn't seen before! I wish I had my camera with me, but it's okay, sometimes it's better to just look and appreciate and be. I do wish, sometimes, that I could share all this beauty with everyone, but that's not the point of this trip. Anyway, the rest of the day was boring. We got the surveys done, sat in ...

... 160; However we were not able to see any. That is the case when you visit one of the most bio diverse places on earth. Biodiversity does not mean abundance. So you take the good with the bad. The students did "enjoy" Monteverde but they did not love it. Its understandable when you do not see much. But yet again they did love being in the cloud forest. Next we went to Selvatura Zip Lines. Needless to say the students loved the ...

... like skidding on a road) instinct kicked in as we both put our paddles in the opposite side of the kayak to push against the current which immediately made the kayak capsize. As I looked around trying to stay afloat I saw Oliver and the guide going after the upturned kayak and paddles. The both shouted for me to swim upstream to avoid being swept away by the current. At this moment it occurred to me that upstream was in fact where we had just seen ...

... go up the mountain. They had cold water springs near the hot ones, so me, kallyn, and anna were going from hot to cold in each of the pools :) they also had water slides and I went down all 3, despite my fear of the steepness... :p anyways, there was one hot spring that was SO hot. It had a cave and it was honestly a sauna. It was AMAZING. I made the horrible decision of jumping into this pool that was creating steam, and I got to a rock on the ...